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Word Counter
Count words, total characters, and characters excluding spaces in your text, updated instantly.
How to Use Word Counter
- 1Paste your text
- 2View the word and character counts instantly
Frequently Asked Questions
It splits your text on whitespace and counts the resulting non-empty chunks — a standard, straightforward word-counting approach used by most word counters.
One — since a hyphenated word like 'well-known' contains no whitespace, it's counted as a single word.
One is the total character count including all spaces; the other excludes spaces, useful for platforms that count characters differently (like some SMS or form character limits).
No — counting happens entirely in your browser as you type.
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